Jay Grinney, president and CEO of HealthSouth Corp., and Michael C. Slocum, executive vice president of commercial banking with Capital One Bank, are among the featured speakers at the 32nd annual Tulane Business Forum. This year’s program, “The Turning Point: Economic Growth Through Innovation & Collaboration,” will take place on Friday, Sept. 30, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside.
Having a well-defined code of ethics may not prevent every crisis, but according to one of the speakers at this year’s Burkenroad Symposium on Business and Society, it helps prevent those crises that do occur from becoming worse. “Ethical leadership is one of the ways of keeping problems problems before they become catastrophes,” said Gael O’Brien, principal of the consulting firm Strategic Opportunities Group.
The Master of Management in Energy is an intensive one-year program focused exclusively on the business of energy and targeted at new or recent college graduates who wish to extend their knowledge and skills for jobs in energy finance, analysis, risk management, consulting and trading.
Tulane University has built a national reputation for public service in recent years. Now, thanks to a group of Freeman School MBA students, that reputation is poised to go global.
“Mad Money” host Jim Cramer is famous for his unabashedly bullish take on the stock market, so it was only fitting that the investment guru should bring his CNBC television show to a city like New Orleans and a school like Freeman.
In its latest biennial ranking of full-time MBA programs, Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the Freeman School 35th in the U.S. The ranking represents a jump of at least 10 spots for the Freeman School.
